Framboise

Framboise at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale. National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, via Wikimedia Commons. Source; Open Government Licence v2.0.

Origin: Netherlands, by 1771
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, truncate conical fruit; ground colour whitish yellow; over-colour red, striped/mottled
Flesh: White; fine
Flavour: Sweet, raspberry like
Ploidy: Diploid
Also called: Alnarps Rosmarin; Calleville d'Automne raye; Calville d'Automne raye; Calville d'Automne Rayee; Calville Rayee d'Automne; des Quatre-Gouts; Erdbeer Apfel; Erdbeerapfel; Framboise d'Ete; Framboise d'Oberland; Framboos; Framboos Appel; Framboox-Apple; Fruher Hainbutterapfel; Gestreifter Herbst-Calville; Himbeer Apfel; Himbeerapfel; Malinove hornokrajske; Malinovoe oberlandskoe; Malinovoe Oberlyandskoe; Malinowa Oberlandska; Malinowe Oberlandzkie; Malinowka Oberlandska; Oberlander; Oberlander Himbeer; Oberlander Himbeer Apfel; Oberlander Himbeerapfel; Oberlandskaya Malinovka; Reinette des Quatre Gouts; Roter Herbst Aniscalvill; Salove Jablko

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

First described by Knoop, a Dutch pomologist in 1771. Fruits have sweet, juicy, softish flesh with a raspberry like flavour.

Sources

Framboise (accession 1996 - 019), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september); the other names.
Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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